...Participants Sect 01 From: Dr. Keith C. Jones Re: Written Case Project Guidelines In addition to the Live Case, students will work on “written cases”. These cases are designed to provide the students the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of all marketing related topics and issues. Each student, individually, is required to prepare a 2 to 3 page single spaced typed solution to the case. The solution should be in the format of an executive memo and be very strategic action oriented. If there are questions at the end of the case, unless otherwise directed, questions should only be used as guidelines. Answering only those questions will not be appropriate. The write-up is to be a “management directive” for the company. It should specifically state what the actions of the company should be to operate within the specific situation. This should not be a recantation of the case. On the case days, students will discuss each of their solutions in a simulated boardroom environment. There is no one set solution to the case. The success in this situation for the student is his or her ability to support their recommendations. Students should provide support as to why they feel their individual solution is appropriate. Students are not to “update” the case. Do not assume the actions taken from the time of the writing of the case by the company are the appropriate solutions/approaches to the case. This can be misleading and create myopia. Each write-up should...
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...455 Week 1 Written Case Analysis - Izmir National University Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/mgt-455-week-1-written-case-analysis-izmir-national-university/ Use the following format for each week’s Case Analysis assignment. Each Case Analysis should be 5 to 6 pages in length. Izmir National University Case Analysis assignment Questions 1. What do the comments by the faculty tell you about INU ’s strategy? 2. What would you recommend the Dekan do regarding the Business School’s strategic planning process? What role would you recommend the Dekan play in this process? 3. Productivity is defined as the ratio of output (including both goods and services) to the input used to produce it. How could the productivity of the Business School be measured? What would the effect be on productivity if the faculty all received a 10 percent raise but continued to teach the same number of classes and students? Format I. Summary of the Facts This section presents a brief listing of the key facts, with page numbers from the case in parentheses, where appropriate. It should be no more than 1 page in length. Therefore, there is little room for a long-winded presentation of each fact. Important assumptions should also be listed here and labeled as such. II. Statement of the Problem This section presents a brief treatment of the major problem or problems, with a concise statement of the major problem or problems you see in the case. This part...
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...Written Case Analysis Case: Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A). Harvard Business School Case Jon Goebel Question 1: Considering various behaviors exhibited by Taran Swan, what do you think are the two predominant personality traits that characterize her? Rely on the class discussions from Session 1. Highlight important examples from the case that led you to this conclusion. In the case study about Nickelodeon in Latin America, Taran Swan exhibits glimpses of each of the five personality traits, but the two traits that most clearly epitomize her dynamic personality are “high extraversion”, and “high openness to experience”. Taran Swan has a tendency toward “high extraversion” and demonstrates this in how comfortable she is networking throughout all levels and functional areas within Nickelodeon / MTV and parent company Viacom. She was dealt a challenging situation when initially asked to launch the network station in Latin America. Taran is given direction to solicit resources and support from MTV personnel, but these employees are not familiar with the Nickelodeon brand and hold obvious bias toward their own network (MTV). Despite this situation, one MTV employee still gives Taran very high praise for not only involving all departments of the organization, but also for offering the opportunity to contribute their own ideas. Taran’s tendency for extraversion also allows her to infuse a sense of camaraderie...
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...The Body Shop International PLC 2001: An Introduction to Financial Modeling Written Case Analysis Mitchell Bredberg-(12205176) Mitchell Sovis-(12156556) Jake Rux-(12159615) Zach Dorer-(12171436) Finance 465-001 11/10/15 I. Executive Summary Anita Roddick was the founder of The Body Shop International PLC. Despite growing a successful business, the company recently ran downhill after losing revenue growth starting in the late 1990s. One of the major problems was intense competition. This unexpected phenomenon caused The Body Shop to lose its image of being the “go to” place in Great Britain’s many shopping venues. Later on, a new CEO, Patrick Gournay, took charge and was faced with a declining pretax profit of twenty-one percent. Facing a dilemma, Gournay’s recommended plan of action included a focused product strategy of increased investment. He was confident this strategy would produce improved results. To be effective, this strategy incorporated a reduction in product and inventory costs as well as a reinforced stakeholder culture. To justify the course of action with this strategy, we will prepare a three-year financial forecast to help predict The Body Shop’s future earnings and financial needs. This forecast will be based on The Body Shop’s historical financial statements to create the best possible financial model going forward. II. Statement of the Problem When Anita Roddick was still CEO, the main problem affecting The Body Shop was not being...
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...------------------------------------------------- Cases Included: ------------------------------------------------- - Oracle – An Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence ------------------------------------------------- - Enterprise Health Information Systems ------------------------------------------------- - FedEx Express EMEA ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Cases Included: ------------------------------------------------- - Oracle – An Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence ------------------------------------------------- - Enterprise Health Information Systems ------------------------------------------------- - FedEx Express EMEA ------------------------------------------------- ITM505 Group 18 – 3 Long Cases ITM505 Group 18 – 3 Long Cases By: Ali Ahmed (500405839), Arham Gul (500393563), Qasim Malik (500450605), Arich Lengkong (500481555), Patrick Antwi (500461586) By: Ali Ahmed (500405839), Arham Gul (500393563), Qasim Malik (500450605), Arich Lengkong (500481555), Patrick Antwi (500461586) Contents Case Analysis – Oracle: An Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 3 Introduction 3 Key Issues 3 Key Assumptions 4 What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a Business Intelligence (BI) software system in a small/medium level business? 5 Procurement and Spend Analytics: 5 Supply Chain and Order Management Analytic 5 Financial/Monetary Analytics...
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...INTRODUCTION The watch industry in India originated in 1960’s with HMT being the sole manufacturer of wrist watches in the country. In 1984 a joint venture of Tata and TIDCO by the name of Titan Industries was formed and it took over most of the market shares from HMT becoming the undisputed leader in the wrist watch industry. After the liberalization of market in India in 1992, there was a tremendous competition in the watch industry as more and more foreign companies started to enter the Indian market. In 1999, the new import and export policy relaxed the hitherto stiff upper bar on imports of luxury watches and more brands started to enter the market. Due to the global economic recession in 2008-2009 the overall production of wrist watches declined around the world, however, there was an increased demand and sales growth for luxury and premium watches in the Indian market. There was an increasingly high demand for luxury watches in India starting eighties. Luxury watches were bought for their symbolic significance and experiential benefits. It was basically attributed to the major lifestyle changes. The other brands having high demand in luxury segment in Indian market were Tissot, Rado, Omega, Tag Heuer and Longines. Xylys is a premium Swiss brand housed by Titan in India. At the launch of the Xylys brand in 2006, the management of Titan Industries created a unique brand perception for Xylys in the consumer market. The brand employed it with style and attitude and...
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...BA 491: INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITTEN CASE ASSIGNMENTS Competition in the Golf Equipment Industry in 2009 Case. Is this industry competitive? Why or why not? Remember instructions: use the concepts discussed on the external environment, I do not want to see a summary of each force. State the important force that supports your answer. FORMAT All case assignments must follow a simple memorandum format with the following sections: 1. The paragraph, a short one, must contain a sentence must stating the response to the required topic. For example, if a recommendation is required, the sentence might start with “I recommend . . .” or “This is to recommend that . . .” If a question is given, the sentence must respond to the question directly. The paragraph should also contain a summary of the justification for the response. 2. The next paragraph or two should contain the justification for the response along with supporting data or information. The latter would be a reference to a concept in Strategic Management and should include facts and information in the case. Stick with information and data provided in the case, materials taken from other sources are not acceptable. 3. A concluding statement. This should allow students to keep their case assignments to a one page limit. The purpose for imposing this format is to encourage students to focus on what is important and avoid unnecessary information. Place name and date on the upper right hand corner...
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...Taste of Watermelon is written by Borden Deal. Taste of Watermelon is written in the year of 1979. It is a short story. He is an American author who is dead! He has been dead 25 years. The Taste of Watermelon is set in the country side where a bunch of farmers live. It is set in the states because of the language used. For example ‘golly’ and ‘gosh’. It is set in around the 1970s, the time it was written in. There are 4 main characters I would say. There is Mr. Will who is an old man who is a farmer and every night he guards his huge watermelon with a gun. Then there is a boy who steals the watermelon and eats it up with his friends. He then after he steals it feels really bad and collects the seeds from the floor and gives them to Mr. Wills The story is basically about a boy who steals the watermelon from Mr. Wills and together with his friends; Freddy, Gary, and J.D., they eat as much as they can of the watermelon and destroy whatever is left. The boy goes home and watches Mr. Wills as he realizes that his watermelon has been stolen. He freaks out and starts destroying all the other watermelons and the boy after a night of not sleeping together with his dad collects all the seeds he could find and gives them to Mr. Wills to plant a field of watermelons for the following year. Mr. wills accepts his apology and is pleased to hear that the boy would love to help Mr. Wills in planting all these seeds. Mr. Wills is happy . The author uses 1st person. I personally prefer...
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...LANGUAGE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN, WHICH ONE IS MORE IMPORTANT? INTRODUCTION As we already know for humans since childhood becomes easily to learn spoken language before written language. However, after learn how to speak, written language becomes more stable than spoken language, it is because human rely on their eyes more than ears. Since spoken language and it written form represent the same meaning, it is necessary to find out which is determinate and which is secondary. In this report will be explained which characteristic of the language is more important. GENERAL ASPECTS First of all, we must separate speech and writing. We know that speech and writing are two forms of human language. Speech and writing both represent meaning. They both possess language's property. To work around the concept 'language' that is a term for both speech and writing, we do not regard them as language, but as visual and auditory info. Apparently, the fundamental distinction between speech and writing is: speech is auditory (acoustic), while writing is visual. Since we are born we are capable to learn real life sounds, so that we are also able to reproduce this sounds whereby spoken language may be more effective than written language on the other hand sometimes speech and writing are the same. Some people like writing more than speaking. Speaking is more important in public gathering, while writing more important for making notes. In terms of usage, neither of speech and writing has absolute...
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...INT J LANG COMMUN DISORD, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER VOL. 2011, 46, NO. 6, 657–664 Research Report Communication skills in a population of primary school-aged children raised in an area of pronounced social disadvantage James Law†‡, Kirsty McBean‡ and Robert Rush‡ †School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK ‡Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK (Received 10 December 2009; accepted 1 February 2011) Abstract Background: Previous studies have highlighted the level of communication difficulty experienced by children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, but the pattern of difficulties remains unclear. Aims: The study asks whether the performance of a community sample of children from one of the most socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Scotland is best characterized by a general delay in all areas of development, by difficulties across the more formal structural aspects of language or in phonological skills. Methods & Procedures: The study included 138 monolingual English-speaking children: 63 (45.7%) boys and 75 (54.3%) girls aged between 5 and 12 years. All children were assessed blind to educational attainment in the school. Outcomes & Results: Nearly 40% of children had delayed language development with 10% having severe difficulties. The children presented with an uneven profile with much lower structural language scores than reading, general communication skills or non-verbal...
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...Free Version focus A simplicity manifesto in the Age of Distraction Leo Babauta focus: about about focus T his book, “focus”, is by Leo Babauta, creator of zen habits and mnmlist. It was written publicly, online, in small bursts, with feedback from readers throughout the writing process. It would be much worse without their wonderful help. dedication The book is dedicated to my grandfather, Joe Murphy, who lived a life that inspired me, and whose death has left a gap in my life ... and to my grandmother, Marianne Murphy, who I love deeply and whose strength and kindness have always pointed the way for me. uncopyright All content of this book are in the public domain. I hereby waive all claim of copyright in this work; it may be used or altered in any manner without attribution or notice to the me. Attribution, of course, is appreciated. To clarify, I’m granting full permission to use any content on this site, including the chapters of my book, in any way you like. I release my copyright on this content. While you are under no obligation to do so, I would appreciate it if you give me credit for any work of mine that you use, and ideally, link back to the original. If you feel like spreading a copy of this book, you may do so without payment. 2 full version This is the free version of this ebook, which can also be found at focusmanifesto.com. The full version of the ebook contains additional chapters: 1. creativity and practicing deep focus 2....
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...Literature Essay: The Pillars of the Earth Shannen Guerra 12th Grade B Life and humanity’s real essence is such a complex topic to cover. To try to do so in a book would imply a carefully thought over work and its extension would obviously not be short. There is a very large amount of aspects, each with a singular characteristic or particularity, that the person in question to develop the topic has to have a very good way of conveying the message in order for the public (in this case, the readers) to fully comprehend. There are so many things to take into consideration, all of which are to be further developed. The Pillars of the Earth, a historic-fictional novel situated on a specific area of the 12th century England and written by Ken Follet, is the work to be talked about. Let’s take a better look into it, with all the regard and carefulness it deserves. As a point of departing, the first literary element to be discussed about is the characters. To start, there is Jack Jackson, the son of Jacques Cherbourg and Ellen. He’s a red-headed, blue-eyed, smart, instinctive, passionate young architect, the stepson to Tom Builder. He adores Aliena as a kid and throughout his life, and dreams of building a cathedral with the different styles he has seen in France and Spain. Jack Jackson is a round character because he’s a fully developed character throughout the story and because one would feel Jack is real. We have Tom Builder, as well, who’s a tall architect, thorough worker...
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...be very helpful for this and your future assignments if you will cite your sources. If you don’t follow this guideline your work will be marked as zero and you won’t get any credit. In order to improve your essays I would suggest that you rewrite it and cite all your sources which were previously mentioned in this essay. I would explain to you that why I believe your essay to be a case of plagiarism .If you take a look at a definition of Middle English by C.Hugh Holman’s A Handbook to Literature: “English as spoken and written in the period following the Norman Conquest and preceding the Modern English period beginning at the Renaissance. The dates most commonly given are 1100 to 1500, though both are approximate dates, as the Norman Conquest came in 1066 and some writings earlier than 1500 (e.g., Malory’s Le Morte D’arthur) may properly be called “modern” English.” You will notice that what you have written is just the paraphrasing of the above definition. From there on even you could tell that this work has plagiarism in it. It is not a common knowledge because it was written by author and therefore it needs to be cited. To avoid plagiarism you need to cite the source from where you have taken your definition from. The rest you can always write in your own words and mention from where you got the idea from. I wish you...
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...TUI University Lionel Martinez ENG 101 – English Composition 1 Dr. David Ojo Module 1 Case Assignment 1 June, 8 2012 While King's letter was set and written in the 1960's, it is still prevalent today. Martin Luther King was not only a civil rights activist for Blacks, but his logic and rhetoric is to be admired. I feel it is our duty not only to read King's letter, but to use it as an educational tool. The letter, by King, is well written and a great example of how to write a letter formed essay. Ignoring the fact this letter was being written during the civil rights fights and protests in the 1960's, it was written by a well-educated and well known man who is respected and admired. King begins his letter in a polite address to accusations delivered to him, "But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will..." He takes politeness to a degree that it becomes an art form. Not once does he use an offense word or phrase that would offend the audience of his letter. King's logic is also to be commended. The Letter began with King's reasons of being in Birmingham and he explains it in a way that you feel like you should agree with him. The different types of rhetoric that King uses are perfect for the intended purpose. His play on pathos, or our emotions, is so that you really have to pay attention to discover it. The best example of his play on pathos is when he describes an even with his son, "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean...
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...Literature The final judging in the American Idol of Literature competition took place in my mind between the three best written pieces of work in “Making Literature Matter”. The three pieces were “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, and even though it is not a story or play, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. Although the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was the best written thing in the text book, I don’t believe it could legitimately win in an “American Idol” type of competition because it wasn’t actually a story. He wrote that letter better than anything I have seen written to this day minus all of the Harry Potter books as I am very partial to them. He was in the heart of where the country needed to reform the most and no one was willing to help him make it happen. He had sincere guts and the faith required to help make the human rights movement work. All he was doing was answering the question “what are you doing here?” and he did it very successfully and effectively over thirteen pages. My favorite quote of his letter to the congressmen was; As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. (Jr.) It was right after he said that they had tried...
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